The 2025 STS Summer School will take place August 24-27 at the Harvard University Center for the Environment (26 Oxford Street). For additional information, please consult the official summer school map.
Sunday, August 24
Sunday, August 24
12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Arrival & Check-in
6:30 PM
Welcome Dinner
Changsho Restaurant
1712 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
Monday, August 25
Location: Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE)
26 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
8:30 AM
Breakfast
9:00 AM
Welcome & Program Overview
Sheila Jasanoff
9:30 AM
Personal Introductions
Faculty introduce themselves and their research and students present a brief overview of their writing projects.
10:30 AM
Coffee Break
10:45 AM
Learning Session: STS Analytic Lexicon (Science, Power, and Politics)
12:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 PM
Author-Meets-Critics Block 1
- Dan Affsprung: Prophets and their Problems: Threats to Accountability in AI Regulation Discourse
- Reviewed by Margo Boenig-Liptsin, ETH Zürich and Søren Riis, Roskilde University
- Vasilis Argyriou: From Unknown to Data Subject: Negotiations and the conflicting realities of datafication in detention centers
- Reviewed by Aziza Ahmed, Boston University and Melanie Smallman, University College London
3:00 PM
Break
3:30 PM
Author-Meets-Critics Block 2
- Anna Gall: Performing a Politicisation of Science amidst Ecological Crises and Democratic Decline
- Reviewed by Margo Boenig-Liptsin, ETH Zürich and Gabriel Dorthe, ETH Zürich
- Sara Kinell: Mediating Climate: Politics and ethics in the age of eco-anxiety
- Reviewed by Brice Laurent, Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, Mines Paris and Søren Riis, Roskilde University
5:30 PM
Adjourn
6:00 PM
Dinner
Tuesday, August 26
Location: Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE)
26 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
8:30 AM
Breakfast
9:00 AM
Author-Meets-Critics Block 3
- Pariroo Rattan: Pathologies of Liberalism: Dueling Statistics and the Politics of Evidence in the Harvard Affirmative Action lawsuit
- Reviewed by Onur Ozgode, Bilkent University
- Vishnu Subrahmanyam: Forgiving Pills, Condemning Bodies: The Moral Calibration of Adherence Through Pharmacological Forgiveness
- Reviewed by Aziza Ahmed, Boston University and Ben Hurlbut, Arizona State University
11:00 AM
Break
11:30 AM
Learning Session: Academic Writing – Responsibility, Rigor and Style
1:00 PM
Lunch
2:00 PM
Author-Meets-Critics Block 4
- Nicole Bassoff: Putting Amazon in its Place: The Co-production of the Digital Economy and the Urban Social Compact
- Reviewed by Ben Hurlbut, Arizona State University
- Manuel Jung: Dissertation Chapter: Infrastructures of Scaling – How the Pursuit for Scalability Reconfigures the Experimental City
- Reviewed by Arthur Daemmrich, Arizona State University and Brice Laurent, Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, Mines Paris
4:00 PM
Coffee Break
4:30 PM
Learning Session: Abstracts and Abstractions
6:00 PM – Adjourn
6:30 PM
Dinner
Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wednesday, August 27
Location: Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE)
26 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
8:30 AM
Breakfast
9:00 AM
Author-Meets-Critics Block 5
- Hadrien Macq: Towards a constitutional approach to digital urban governance: Urban Digital Twins and the mutual constitution of problems, publics, and institutions
- Reviewed by Gabriel Dorthe, ETH Zürich and Melanie Smallman, University College London
- Hilton Simmet: Curves, Lines and Traps: Accounting for Quality in Development Economics
- Reviewed by Onur Ozgode, Bilkent University
11:00 AM
Break
11:30 AM
Learning Session: Interpretive STS Analysis
12:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM
Author-Meets-Critics Block 6
- Rose Sebastian: Postcolonial Science on Display: Discourses on Science and Technology from Indian Science Museums
- Reviewed by Arthur Daemmrich, Arizona State University and Mak Takahashi, VU Amsterdam
2:30
Coffee Break
3:00 PM
Author-Meets-Critics Block 7
- Lisa Claussmann: The Eventual Market. Promises and Anticipations of Carbon Capture, Transport and Storage
- Reviewed by Stefan Schäfer, RIFS-Potsdam
- Job Zomerplaag: When Transitions Hit Home: Public Formation and Collective Agency in the Dutch Heat Transition
- Reviewed by Stefan Schäfer, RIFS-Potsdam and Mak Takahashi, VU Amsterdam
5:00 PM
Midweek Comment Period
5:30 PM
Adjourn
To be followed by the 24th Annual Meeting of the Science and Democracy Network, August 28-30.
